"Ten months ago, the unemployment rate was 6.3 percent. Now, it’s 4.6 percent. Ten months ago, the public saw a report that the economy had just lost over 300,000 jobs the previous month. Now, job growth is soaring and is on pace to create nearly 7 millions this year.
What’s more, the U.S. economic recovery is strong, we’re the only advanced economy on the planet to have
a higher GDP now than before the pandemic began.
Ten months ago, Covid-19 infections were vastly worse, as were hospitalizations and fatalities. Ten months ago, a tiny percentage of the population had been vaccinated.
Ten months ago, the United States fell short of a peaceful transition of power for the first time in its history. Ten months ago, the United States still had thousands of troops in harm’s way in Afghanistan. Ten months ago, the United States’ international standing and credibility was
in desperate need of improvement.
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